• In-person participation is required throughout the year
• Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment
• Attendance is expected and fully supported
• You will serve as a member of the Coinbase Technology Risk & Controls team and support the implementation and maturity of our technology and security risk management program
• Your risk team will define, quantify, manage, and communicate risks, and use outcomes to inform business decisions
• You will serve as the subject matter expert in technology risk management operations, and will make these applicable and usable for fast-moving technical teams located across global time zones
• Analysis of multiple variables, including but not limited to, threat intelligence and risks, to inform threat models/risk scoring methodologies
• Enable risk informed business outcomes: Enable teams and leadership to make risk-based decisions by clearly communicating quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs
• Manage risks throughout the risk lifecycle: Intake, triage, analyze, and calculate (inherent/residual) risk in collaboration with subject matter experts and risk owners
• Facilitate agreement and documentation of risk treatment decisions; pressure testing treatment decisions and validating execution of mitigation plans across stakeholders as required
• Participate in continuous monitoring or risk treatment
• Reporting on risk posture: Support synchronous and asynchronous reporting on findings, metrics, and recommend mitigations to business leadership
• This includes ad hoc and scheduled meetings with leadership and business risk owners
• Maintain source of truth risk register: Quality control of data, tooling support, and implementing automation/process improvements to establish a baseline and iteratively improve risk management data and tooling
• Communications and training: Support develop, execution, and maintenance of communication and training plans to roll out the technology risk program across the organization
• Maintain team runbooks, team intra-web pages, and risk register metrics dashboards
• Enterprise risk alignment: Work in lockstep with Enterprise Risk Management to escalate risks through the enterprise risk register and report relevant metrics to senior leadership as determined necessary
• Global Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to help scale the program’s risk framework across Coinbase entities, products, and geographies/markets
• Regularly collaborate with GRC teams, Legal and Compliance for risks, assessments, and reporting to meet regulatory requirements
• Support audit and regulatory inspections: Support data compilation to respond to US and international audit/regulator inquiries
• Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks

Execute risk assessments: Execute technical risk assessments across our production and corporate environments, enabling the team to communicate risk in both qualitative and quantitative terms

• We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up
• We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems
• 5+ years of experience working in a 1 or 2 LoD risk management function and/or Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization

Technology risk domain knowledge: Ability to dig into technical risk solutions and to work on technical quantitative risk assessments across information technology domains such as asset management, resilience, systems development lifecycle, and infrastructure

• Comfortable working with project management tooling (e.g. Jira, Archer) and quant and qualitative data analytics tooling
• Clear/concise communicator and writer; experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences
• Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders
• Regulatory familiarity: Working knowledge of major regulatory/legal frameworks (US/international) driving requirements across technology organizations
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time
• You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity
• Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase
• You have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills
• Excellent organization and project management skills in a fast-moving and demanding environment
• FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines
• Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3

Position ID: P69475

Risk domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL, DORA, FAIR risk quant methodology to measure controls/risks, monitor controls/risks, and validating/racking/evidencing remediation Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology (e.g., crypto, mobile, cloud, data lakes, machine learning)

• Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below
• Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
• Base salary range shown

Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits: $167,280—$196,800 USD